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Victoria Alexandrina Drummond MBE (1894–1978)
Victoria Drummond was the first female marine engineer in the UK and the first British woman to serve as chief engineer with the Merchant Navy. As a result of her courage under fire at sea during World War II, she was awarded a MBE in 1941 and was the first woman to receive the Lloyd’s War Medal for Bravery at Sea.
A god-daughter of Queen Victoria and born at Megginch Castle, near Perth, Victoria amazed her family by making her career as a marine engineer, training at what is now the University of Abertay Dundee – her plaque is placed at the main entrance of the University in Bell Street.
She began her career in 1916 as an apprentice in a Perth garage, spending three evenings a week at the former ‘Bell Street Tech’.
In 1918, she moved to the Lilybank Foundry, part of the Caledon Shipyard, then sailed as a fully-qualified engineer for the first time on SS Anchises in 1922. She sailed the world on cargo ships and tramp steamers and, more than once, saved her ship from sinking.
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Victoria Drummond was the first female marine engineer in the UK and the first British woman to serve as chief engineer with the Merchant Navy. As a result of her courage under fire at sea during World War II, she was awarded a MBE in 1941 and was the first woman to receive the Lloyd’s War Medal for Bravery at Sea.
A god-daughter of Queen Victoria and born at Megginch Castle, near Perth, Victoria amazed her family by making her career as a marine engineer, training at what is now the University of Abertay Dundee – her plaque is placed at the main entrance of the University in Bell Street.
She began her career in 1916 as an apprentice in a Perth garage, spending three evenings a week at the former ‘Bell Street Tech’.
In 1918, she moved to the Lilybank Foundry, part of the Caledon Shipyard, then sailed as a fully-qualified engineer for the first time on SS Anchises in 1922. She sailed the world on cargo ships and tramp steamers and, more than once, saved her ship from sinking.
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